The Mailbox® Plus

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The Mailbox Plus

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About This Product

Teachers want creative ideas that make teaching their curriculum easier. Schools and districts want an affordable, one-stop solution that helps their students succeed. The Mailbox Plus is the answer to both. It’s packed with 54,000+ ideas and worksheets that teach essential skills and take the stress out of lesson planning—all on an easy-to-use, teacher-friendly platform. 

For 50 years, The Mailbox has been the leader in providing teacher-created ideas that really work. With The Mailbox Plus, your entire institution can have unlimited, simultaneous access to this incredible, ever-growing collection at one low price.

The Mailbox Plus’s classroom tips and tools will help educators build practical skills in the all-important area of successful classroom management—recognized as the #1 characteristic of being an effective teacher. All content is carefully planned and edited by our in-house team of former teachers. Our editors are experienced at assessing what teachers will find valuable and worth incorporating into lessons. The platform is search-based to help teachers find the materials they need quickly, and our editors have categorized the lessons and ideas in all the ways teachers teach, including grade level, curriculum area, and type (worksheet, craft, game, etc.). All of the activities and ideas in The Mailbox Plus are educationally sound, practical, easy to use, error-free, and child-centered.

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Learn360 subscribers: Great news! Did you know you can add more than 54,000 worksheets, activities, and lessons to your Learn360 subscription just by adding The Mailbox Plus? Subscribe to both and you’ll get unlimited access within your Learn360 to all the teacher-created content from The Mailbox, the best source for your teachers’ lesson-planning needs.

FACT SHEET (PDF)

  • The Mailbox Advantage: More than 80% of today’s teachers know The Mailbox—and 85% of them have used ideas from The Mailbox in their classrooms. Teachers have total confidence that, when they work with an idea from The Mailbox to introduce or reinforce a lesson, they are spending their time wisely. The Mailbox also reminds educators how much fun teaching can be and shows them how to make learning fun for their kids. Now, The Mailbox Plus offers all of these advantages at an institution-wide level with no banner ads, the ability to build complete lesson plans with the Lesson Plan Builder at no additional cost, and access to activities and ideas at all grade levels from prekindergarten through grade 6.
  • A Wealth of Content: The Mailbox Plus’s 54,000+ worksheets, crafts, forms, songs, games, graphic organizers, patterns, clip art, cards, and more span a diverse range of subjects, including language arts, math, social studies, science, classroom management, and arts and crafts. Engaging, skill-based student practice sheets are perfect for assessments, morning work, guided learning, and small-group or independent practice and homework. Teachers can easily download ideas directly to their computers (in PDF format), print them, or save them under My Content for later.
  • By Teachers, for Teachers: Ideas and activities from The Mailbox Plus are teacher-created, teacher-tested, and educationally sound. For each activity, our editors have followed the instructions, filled out the forms, and answered the questions to make sure there are no gaps, missing steps, or missing materials.
  • Save Time on Lesson Planning: Many teachers get less than 40 minutes of planning time a day. The Mailbox Plus’s intuitive design and features, including its Lesson Plan Builder, make it easy for teachers to find and assemble activities and ideas quickly, saving precious time and preventing headaches. Teachers won’t have to spend another weekend planning lessons—we do much of the work for them!
  • Always Fresh and Up to Date: The Mailbox Plus highlights new content every month, with skills and topics right when teachers need them. Eight to ten activity packets and around 50 pages of new content are added for each grade level every month. Users can sign up for email alerts to let them know as soon as new content is available.
  • Educationally Sound Materials: The Mailbox Plus uses a multi-pronged approach to ensure that every activity, if applicable, is labeled with the correct skill. Our editors study and refer to the Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, the standards for non-Common Core states such as Texas, Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, and EngageNY’s Prekindergarten Standards as they label activities with skills. Editors also refer to a variety of textbooks and educational websites for examples of how each standard/skill is executed.
  • Lesson Plan Builder: With The Mailbox Plus, users can create and save personalized lesson plans—comprehensive plans with an activity to introduce the skill, activities to practice the skill together as a class, printables for independent practice (at three ability levels), and an assessment that checks for understanding—with all the required elements in one location, at no additional cost. The Lesson Plan Builder draws upon a collection of more than 500 lessons to help teachers assemble a personalized lesson plan that is leveled for all learners. Teachers can easily download and print out their lesson plans for their own use, to hand in to administrators, or for substitute teachers to use.
  • Make & Print Tools: The Mailbox Plus allows users to customize a variety of resources, including flash cards, bingo boards, spelling lists, math tools, language arts tools, and more.
  • My Mailbox: Users who sign in to The Mailbox Plus can save any ideas, activities, and worksheets they’ve been working on under My Content. The Print Packet allows users to save multiple ideas and print them all at once with just one click—ideal for the busy teacher who finds lots of great ideas but doesn’t have time to print them out right away. Users can store the lesson plans they’ve built in folders they can customize themselves.

  • Available 24/7, anywhere
  • Easy-to-use, browser-based interface—no special software or hardware needed
  • Tablet/mobile friendly
  • No ads
  • Materials at all grades accessible—differentiate lessons for every learner
  • New content is posted on the first of each month
  • Correlated content that is easy to search by grades, subjects, and types
  • Customizable home page
  • Easily browse by grade or subject
  • Unlimited download and print capability
  • Easily printable packets of collated activities and worksheets
  • Tons of seasonal and thematic ideas, crafts, and more!

The Mailbox® Comes to Learn360

We are pleased to announce that we’ve integrated a wealth of exciting new educator resources from The Mailbox® into Learn360 just in time for the new school year! Learn360 users can now access more than 1,100 printable ideas, activities, and worksheets by clicking on The Mailbox® icon on the…read more →

The Mailbox® School & District: BESSIE Winner!

Infobase is excited to announce that The Mailbox® School & District has been selected as a winner of The ComputED Gazette’s 25th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIES) in the “Teacher Tools: Online Teacher Productivity Tool” category. According to The ComputED Gazette…read more →

The Mailbox® School & District: EDDIE Winner!

Infobase is excited to announce that The Mailbox® School & District has been selected as a winner of The ComputED Gazette’s 22nd Annual Education Software Review Awards (EDDIES) in the “Teacher Tools: Online Teacher Resource Collection” category. According to The ComputED Gazett…read more →

The Mailbox® School & District: Renowned Teacher Resource Now Available to Entire Institutions

Infobase is proud to announce the launch of an exciting classroom and activity resource: The Mailbox School & District. For more than 40 years, The Mailbox has been a trusted leader in providing teacher-created ideas that work. Now, for the first time, an entire institution can have unlimited, s…read more →

Infobase Announces Acquisition of The Mailbox

New York, NY, May 12, 2017—Infobase, a New York-based educational publishing company, announced today that it has acquired The Education Center, publisher of The Mailbox and Learning® magazine. The Mailbox is an online resource with more than 50,000 learning objects, lesson plans, and ideas…read more →

25th Annual Best Educational Software Award (BESSIES), “Teacher Tools: Online Teacher Productivity Tool” category

The ComputED Gazette

22nd Annual Education Software Review Award (EDDIES), “Teacher Tools: Online Teacher Resource Collection” category

The ComputED Gazette

“Infobase’s answer to the classic teacher’s nightmare…No more late night or weekend marathons putting together lesson plans…User-friendly and easily searchable, The Mailbox® is an elegant solution to what used to be a persistent dilemma…[The Mailbox® is] sure to impact 21st Century education.”

The ComputED Gazette

Awards of Excellence: Best of 2021, "Primary Education" category

Tech & Learning

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